Damilola Taylor’s father Richard Taylor told Channel 4 News: “I feel very upset and disgusted by the action of this person or group of workers. This is an illegal act which we do find unacceptable.”â??

One anonymous user on a government network made edits to the entry for Damilola Taylor to change the phrase “was murdered” to simply read that he had “died”.

The vast majority of edits made from the government secure network are not malicious, but there have been a large number of changes being made. 25,000 such edits have been made in total, with 1,250 made this year alone.

On average anonymous users on British government computers networks make eight edits while at work each day.

The first “bot” monitoring government-linked edits was set up by Tom Scott and coded by Ed Summers, to monitor edits made from parliament, called @ParliamentEdits.